Comparison of effectiveness of direct method and Traditional method in English teaching.

The Traditional Method 

 has been with us through the 

before long time and is still with us. This method stresses reading ability, the 

study of grammar as an aid to reading comprehension, and a great deal of both written and oral translation. Its main impact is on reading, writing,translation, and grammatical rules.  This has been the most popular method with the language teacher as well as with the learners. But the main objection to this method is that it ignores the listening and speaking skills of the learners. The students who study by this type of method can read and write very well but can neither speak nor make use of their knowledge of the language if they happen to listen or speak to a native speaker of the language. This type of method is unnatural method because of word for word translation makes the whole process of learning English language.

The Direct method has a unique and popular method language teaching.This types of method like a  first words are taught by pointing to objects or picturesor by performing actions. This type of methods are also known as: 

The Natural Method

The Modern Method

The Oral Method

The Conversational Method 

There was no stress on speaking or understanding , competence in the target

language. The most popular methods are the Natural Method language naturally in the manner in which mother tongue is

taught.

The Plague Vs Corona

Here, to compare this present situation & the novel " The Plague" written by Albert Camus. There are so many questions in the mind of people now a days like: why people are dying? What is reason behind it?etc. As a literature students we shall know about this novel and what happens in history.

There is old sentence: " History repeat" I came to know about this novel during the days of Pandemic covid19 if you change the " The Plague" with covid 19 Corona virus it's seems you are reading tweets. This book is alive today and word describes it " masterpiece". This novel in the spreading disease like: " The Plague" in there virus spreading uncontrollably from animal to human. Here, we can see this current situation now a days. Here, so many similarities with present situation covid 19 Corona. 

1: Humanity- human self- centeredness Vs human sacrifice: 

Today's this very dangerous disease Corona virus. We can see that many people are sacrificing like: doctors, police and sweepers are fight with this disease day tonight for save humans life. Same situation in the novel " The Plague" Albert Camus said that many people are sacrificed during that time against plague for save humans lives like doctor Bernard Rieux. This well example of human sacrifice. Everyone reacts differently according to differently situation. In this novel one character has committed suicide. Bernard knows that this is not simple disease but lack of awareness of government it's spread uncontrollably animals to human. We can see this curry situation stupidity of oeooi situations became very critical. When 22 March 2020, PM Narendra Modi appeal of the public curfew. In fact appeal of public curfew was  due to people doing social distancing at home and increasing the enthusiasm of people to deal with global epidemic like Corona. But some people took to the street in Delhi, Ahmedabad and other places of country and made fun of comping by taking the crowd, they have also become character of laughter. We can see here stupidity of people and situation becomes very critical.

2: Science Vs Religion: 

This point is very interesting. Here, we can see that how people connect with this situations and religion. Science has given other reason regarding the epidemic and religion gave different answer. We can see the religion Vs science, priest and Dr. Bernard. In this novel writer said that a Catholic priest called panel he gives a sermon to the city in the Catholic the main squar and seeks to explain the as God's punishment for depravity. But can here doctor who loathes this approach the Plague is not a punishment for anything deserved that would be to imagine that the universe was moral or had some sort y design to it but Dr watched a young innocent child die in his hospital and he knows better suffering entirely randomly distributed it makes no sense it.

The News Report

Hello Everyone!

I am Zarna Bhatti, and welcome to time now the digital news channel Department of English.

The highlights of the news are:

The Camera crew went to the hot seat of the Department. Yes, indeed it’s the head office. The news reporter had an interview with the head of department.

One can imagine from the desk how busy the man can be however we have special news coverage.

We can see how department is well known in Bhavnagar University campus, because the best output of human capabilities can be found in Department of English. During the course of M.A. Learning Language, Literature, Criticism, Cultural studies, Translation, Diaspora, Indian Writing in English, International Paper Presentation, Foreign Guests Speakers, Cultural exchange visiting faculties, are also invited at Department of English. a lot. Through Leaders and other members of various committee works on it. Such as Daily Shedual, Library celebration, garding, creative art and bulletin committee.

      Out of this here is a special report all few of in daily shedual committee his self but also can develop personality as well. Daily shedual committee offers a platform not only to present on item but also offers a scope of personality development.

       Another is library committee where students can exchange and improve their ideas and thought very well by using it.

      Department of English has rich access to knowledge which is very welf updated through a library committee. Frequent visities to the central library, issuing and maintaining the library leadjre.Depatment has university library books, and department library books.

     Other is celebration committee in which entire year’s academic and non academic activities as well as programmes, highliguted that is quite enough to overview department active participation within.

      Before coming to the end, I would say that our eng department is a hub of knowledge and development. Where one can definitely get accordingly. Environment and sources that we all are getting to develop our self from here is itself enough to prove department’s significance as sir also said sometimes that department is our second home, so with homely surrounding wr all are learning together and hope to bill it shining ever and ever.

Harry Potter- By J.K.Rowling

Children's Literature and Harry Potter:

The novel is related to the children literature it means that the children literature books were related to the ideas of self observing it means that children should like those things which were directly related with their self existence and self learning also   So we can say that J.K Rowling has created the new world into the novel which is directly connected to the speculative literature as we can see the children's literature. 

In Harry Potter mostly all the scene were related to the magic and power of reality and a different world which is not possible into the real world also. So children like those things which related to power and magic as well as a different world also.

The Theme of Love and Death:


Love and death are major themes in J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter books. The theme of love and death is as old as human being live on the earth. 

The theme of love and death goes parallel to the text but stands opposite throughout the text. Here we can divided into two part one is Willingly and second is forcefully. Harry stands in the world because of love by his mother while Voldemort can be considered as from black background rather from the evil.

Harry has love in the form of  friends while Voldemort also has company but in the form of follower. Those who followers him not as a friend instead of that they serve Voldemort out of self-motive or out of fear.

Voldemort thinks that love is the weakness of human being while Harry take it as a supporting side of it. Another thing can be considered as that.

Death – self preservation he is fear for death that's the only reason to reached him to divided his should into seven  Horcruxe.

The three brother's story using clock – somehow death could find out its own way. Accept the choice willingly.

Feminist reading Harmione:

  -Harmione is not intellectual debut between Dumbledore and Harry.
  -Professor Dumbledore always help to Harry.
  When Harry meet the Dumbledore at that time Harmione is not a present.
- Here we can found that those are the ground in society for women character.
-Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women. 
-She is intelligent and warrior.
-Characters like Lily, etc.
but at the end we can also say that this book also deconstruct as anti feminist book.


Harry potter” series in Harmione is center Female character in novel. As feminism is range of political, ideological, cultural, personal and economical equality that not foe only men but also for women. She is beautiful and intelligent girl. She knows about her magical tricks and how uses them. She is Intelligent and worries girl. At begin film in Harmione is brave girl; her friends are Harry & Ron. As Rowling is female writer as portrayed of women are intelligent and smart, not for weak & dumb characters. This novel all about to Feminine perspective but in other thought not margin of Women. But it is all about to Anti Feminine ideas. She is confident, and constantly stood up for herself and her friends.  But we see that Women works are smarter than men. As we say about has central women protagonist. As we see Harmione character in film we see that Men (Harry & Ron) use of Harmione. She loves Ron.  Harry and Ron rescue Harmione from a troll, but instead of holding it over her head and acting superior, they treat it as a bonding experience. And also she jealous to other female characters. As we thinks about to critical that in film every time magic, talk to Dumbledore, Fight with Veldemor & Harry, Broken to Horcruxes at that point Harmione not there. It means that as something brave or mysterious work women not do that. Harmione broke only one Horcruxe. In one scene Harmione solves a logic puzzle. she and Harry realize that only one of them can go on to save the Sorcerer's Stone. 

Here I am sharing score of my self-assessment for this blog.
Overall Visual Appeal- 2
Navigation & Flow- 2
Mechanical Aspects-1
Motivational Effectiveness of Introduction- 2
Cognitive Effectiveness of the Introduction-1
Connection of Task to Standards- 3
Cognitive Level of the Task- 2
Clarity of Process -3
Scaffolding of Process- 3
Richness of Process- 2
Relevance & Quantity of Resources- 3
Quality of Resources- 3
Clarity of Evaluation Criteria-3
Total Marks:- 30/50.

Thank You..

daily shedual

I introduced this committee is the daily participation of all students. Daily Schedule starts with University song and then Prayer and at last we sing our National Song.

 So, many various columns like: Thought for the day, News reading, Opinion Building, Vocabulary drill, Personal Presentation, Book Report, Regional Literature, and Humor of the day etc.

When I was a fresher here, I just wondered what this happening was but my seniors and classmates helped me in understanding it. This is a platform where many activities take place.

 In this committee, the main is that benefit all the students get the chance to perform of on the stage, and in our opinion or views, sharing our ideas, with everybody. This activity we are only our English Department. Because of this activity we enhance our communication skills, knowledge about vocabulary and all four skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing skills improved.

I had been taken participate in my favorite column like: News Reading. I had always reading news paper in my class. I got so many ideas, thinking, skills. When I read news paper that time I improved my four skills like: Listening, writing, Speaking, Reading, and improved our vocabulary.

In the end of Daily Schedule, head of the Department of English, Dr. Dilip Barad gives comments and counterpoints which is very useful for us to improve ourselves.

Refugee, Mother and Child- Chinua Achebe

Introduction

Chinua Achebe has written several novels and many poems. Indeed, he is considered to be one of the finest literally artists to have come out of Africa. He is a believer that all literature "should have a message, should have a purpose."

The Background for the Poem:

In 1967 civil war broke out in Nigeria when the Catholic dominated province of Biafra attempted independence from the Moslem dominated central state. During those fateful years, Achebe worked as an ambassador for the Biafran government.
The war went badly for the Biafrans who suffered immensely, and starvation was rife. The poet's firsthand experience of the hardship and struggle inspired him to write "Refugee Mother and Child".

Reference to Madonna and Child : Its Significance:

The Madonna is Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, and the Child is her son, Jesus. A statue of the Madonna holding the Infant Jesus is common in the Catholic Church. Remember that Achebe wrote this poem in the Catholic province of Biafra, where statues of the Madonna and Child would have been common.

The unavoidability of Death of the Children:

The mothers all know that their children are dying. It is what is known as a "defence mechanism" that the mothers use to protect themselves. There is nothing they can do to prevent their children from dying, and so they protect themselves from psychological destruction by giving the appearance that they no longer care. Starvation was rife in the refugee camp. Children in the camp were dying with regularity, and the mother knows that her own son would probably also soon be dead.

The Blown up Bellies of the Children:

The children are suffering from kwashiorkor, which the Oxford Dictionary describes as "a form of malnutrition caused by a protein deficiency of diet, especially in young children in the tropics". It leads the children's bellies to blow up. So these children are starving (have empty bellies) but their bellies are blown up from kwashiorkor.

Without the comma, the meaning would be that the odours were of diarrhoea from the unwashed children. By omitting the commas, the poet forces the reader to think out the meaning of his lines. He is also able to hide two or even three different meanings in each line.

Starvation at the Refugee Camp:

Starvation was rife in the refugee camp. Children in the camp were dying with regularity, and the mother knows that her own son would probably also soon be dead. The woman is watching her child dying. Her little acts of love and kindness are therefore not unlike the ritual of putting flowers on his grave

The poet is looking to an earlier life before the war broke out, a life when food was in abundance, a life when breakfast and school were an everyday event. Now there is no breakfast, no school, but only a refugee camp and death.

How Literature Shaped me?

“Literature is the treasure of Knowledge which never going to be ends.”

But now the point is that how this treasure of Knowledge shaped me. What kind of knowledge I getting from this treasure?

Let starts from the very beginning at my B.A. level.

“Exaggeration always destroying,

Exaggeration leads towards tragic facts.”

That’s what I learn from “Tughlaq” and the same theme carried out in “Dr. Faustus” by Christopher Marlow; “Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hide” by Robert Louis Stevenson; “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley.

Mary Shelley also talks about the patriarchal power and also tries to deconstruct the idea of it through creating such kind of monster. The importance of women in the society is very low and each and every stage they are humiliated, suppressed or oppressed by male dominance society. But Virginia Woolf highly criticized this society through putting such argumentative point in “To the Lighthouse” that-

Why women cannot write and paint?

Likewise, Milton describe the argumentative nature of women through the character of Eve in the year 1667 that’s what Virginia Woolf proved out into the year 1927 through the character of Lily Briscoe. Even Jane Austen digs deep and carried out how the patriarchal society operates.

So these all text teach me that not be the character like Mrs. Ramsay, who pretending that she is good while she also wants the symptoms of Lily Briscoe, who live life freely. In short individuality is everything.Freedom is everything. One can have the choice to live life how they want to live. This thing I learn from “the Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Afterward, the novel “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga, also talks about the same idea that-

Individualism is everything. Why are we waiting for others changes rather change ourselves? I think that India is great country. India finds everything. But this text criticized the idea of habit of India people who believe that India is find out everything. This novel got the criticism that Adiga feeding English people’s mentality through this novel.

So I must say that they have very limited knowledge about the literature. Maybe they not read T.S.Eliot’ “The Waste Land”, who criticized his own land to call it as a Waste Land. So, it teaches me that if we are wrong at some point we must accept it and always be ready to change ourselves. Further in “Gulliver’s Travels”, Swift also criticized his own culture.

Furthermore, the Old man and the Sea, teach me that “EVERY DAY IS NEW DAY”. Dedication, determination and hard work are ultimate truth that I learn from this novel.

“Be Skeptical” towards everything that I learn from Julian Barnes’ “The Sense of an Ending” and from Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code”. Doubt everything and not believe in anything easily.

J.K.Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” teach me that“DEATH IS INEVITABLE”. Fear from the death one cannot harm others existence. Hatred, jealousy, murder is not the ultimate elements for living good life rather love and friendship is ultimate elements to living good life.

In the critical situation God always help us that I learn from Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Chetan Bhagat’s “One Night at the Call Center”, Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code”, and “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville.

Totally opposite to that is what Samuel Beckett talks about in “Waiting for Godot”. It aware us about the RESPONSIBILITIES that human being have. Normally people don’t fulfill their responsibilities so they hide themselves under the curtain of religion. It always reminds me whenever I take breathing that we are habituated to doing the things.

Likewise, we never see ourselves that where are we wrong. We always try to put ourselves into margin. Moreover we always are craving sympathy from other. That’s what the African Literature talks about. They tries to look back to themselves that where are they wrong. What is their fault? In reality we also make ourselves like "BICHARA KIND" of people and want sympathy from other. So it makes our life one step backward. But here all the African Literature not gives us pleasure instead of that it is give us frustration, hatred, anger and what not. These books were not written out of compassion but out of compulsion.

The post-colonial Literature talks about those who are intentionally wiped out from the map or not having voice, it giving voice to them. It is centering the decenter.

In short literature is for those who are marginalized by the power. It giving space to them and talking from their point of view or perspective.

So, in a way I got lots of things from the Literature but when it became the matter of practical use of literature, it may fail. Accept this i more like all theories and all post-colonial literature and some modern literature.